#InPraiseOfShadows
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #InPraiseOfShadows from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-13 09:16 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-13 09:16 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #inpraiseofshadows.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-13 09:16 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~24334 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: German (2) · English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Eine kurze Geschichte, die einen philosophischen Stil hat. Es geht um Schatten, Schattierungen und ihre Umgebung. Und zwar in allen Bereichen des Lebens und der Behausung. Jun'ichiro Tanizaki lebte von 1886 bis 1965, und er war ein berühmte
"We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive luster to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artefact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity." "And I realized then that only in dim half-light is
In Praise of Shadows. In Japan, materials have limited value until they develop their patina. Silver doesn’t get polished, it’s left to go near black. Timber is not sanded and varnished, it’s left to fade to tones of grey and the texture of
#inpraiseofshadows across platforms
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